This link shows the latest milestone for women in chess:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32618139

Separately, I have been working on go in the 1930s recently, and I discovered that I had not properly appreciated the achievements of Suzuki Hideko.

There were no titles then so career highlights are more subdued than nowadays, but she stayed in the top echelon of the Oteai for several years with some decent results - the modern equivalent might be staying in the Honinbo League.

She had an interesting (and often unlucky) life in other ways. Like her teacher, she dressed and behaved like a boy till she reached 1-dan. She helped teach Kitani. She reached the then high grade of 4-dan. She had one pupil you might know - Kano Yoshinori. She was divorced by Suzuki Tamejiro because she would stay up late studying instead of going to bed. She died prematurely when struck by a train, unable to see the tramlines because of her umbrella. All in all I think she made as much of a mark among the men as Rui Naiwei.

Here is a game of hers defeating one of the big lions of the time in 1929: